Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-08-03

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AT meeting Of citizens Of the District OF Co
Iumola, held tonight, resolutions were unani-
mousy adopted calling on the President TO remove
the Commissioners OF the District. After recitlng
In preamble that ii has been shown that great
irregularities abuse OF power and misapproprfa-
ton OF the public money exist In the management
or our District government, the resolutions urge
IN the name OF our outraged people the removal
or the Commissioners 6c.-Exchange
This is a sample OF dispatches TO outside news
papers, based upon the water grievance meeting
last night, and pictur1ng to the world the people
of the District as rising In a body TO demand the
removal Of officers who have Incorporated pub
lie funds. THE STAR suggests to those who are re-
spOnsible for the resolutions at last nights meet
ing that stopping over" is practice to
be avoided however natural that blunder may
be In dealing with water. The men who assem-
bled, not In large numbers ar Shea's hall, were
almost entirely those who felt aggrieved by the
application OF the waterfront schedule TO their
particular cases, and who diSsented from the con-
struction put upon parts Of the water law by the
Commissioners or their attorneys 1t was not the
people OF Washington who passed the thunderous
resolutions but few citizens who are pinched by
water schedule conceded TO be technical, arbi-
trary andhardship-working, and by legal con-
structIOn OF the word shop which may or may
not be sound. The STAR sympathtzes with their
real grievances Believing that the right to protest
either in public meeting or In the newspapers
against the acts or plans of the municipal govern
nlent Is the only protection left to those who do
lot select and have no power to d1splace their
public servants THE STAR has given voice to COM
plants against the water department and It's
methods II this, as In other matters IL has crit-
Cised the plans, or supposed plans, OF the Commits
sioners when IL has thought them Objectionable
The result of such discussion has often been either
TO effect change OF plan, or to elicit disclaimer
OF some supposed project, thus bringing relief in
either case TO those who felt that they had cause
10 complain To such criticism and discussion
the acts OF the Commissioners are properly sub
1ected. But there Is nothing whatever before
THE STAR and the people OF Washington to justify
the suggestion OF the resolutions, that Nessrs
webb, Wheatley and Ludlow are thieves, deserv-
ing dismissal as such The people do not believe
II, and there Is no general demand for their re-
moval Mr.. Cranes figures doubtless deserve
speedy explanation; but reference to them and
recital OF Instances of dictatorial treatment by
individual Commissioners and Of mistakes In
Judgment or IN matters OF law ON their part are
as far as possible from 1ustifying proclamation
to the world that the present District Government
Is corrupt.
The suggestion made in this column last winter
that Mr.. HiscOek, then newly elected Senator
from New York, was going TO play q much more
important part in politics than ever before Is al
ready confirmed His power, combined with ex-
Senator Platts, shaped the proceedings of the re-
publican state committee at Saratoga yesterday
SO that the date and place OF the next convention
were fixed precisely according to their wishes
MI. HiScock also took great pride in bringing to-
gether, on this occasion, an unusually large and
harmonious gathering OF republican editors, who
exchanged assurances OF fellowship and re4couse-
Grated themselves 10 the big work ahead. Hfth.
have been the hardest parts To hold together In q
Campaign. Some OF the most influential journal.
lists have felt that they could do better for them
selves as free-laneeS than as thick-and-thin par.
tiSanS. II the new Senator IS able to corral the
whole republican press OF his state and not only
make II pull together, but make 1t enjoy pulling
hts everlasting fame is secure.
The mugwump press is opening IRE once more
all along the line, upon the celebrated Mr. Hig-
gins, OF Baltimore. IL is apparently, getting
ready TO ask the President in plump English
whether he values more the mugwump vote or the
Higgins VOTE and 10 shape its policy for 1888 with
reference TO his answer. In any aspect Mr.. Hig-
gins Is picturesque and interesting AS an issue
In Presidential campaign he would become espe-
cfaily so. II, year hence, Mr.. Cleveland should
be nominated by the democrats and Mr. Blaine Inv
the republicans, what an important share Mr.
Higgins may bear In the activities of the canvass
Mr. Blaine being not To be thought Of and Mr..
Clevelsnd not TO be voted for, will anything be
Left for the patriotic 1nugwump to do but to 90
a-nshing?
The demand Of the comptroller OF the currency
Tor statement OF the condition OF the national
banks Is calling out remonstranceS and criticism
from various quarters, but 10 no purpose Mr..
Trenholm Is not man TO be moved from his re-
solve By eensure or praise. 1t Is his very reason
able belief that the banks ought to be ready at
any and all times 10 make statement II there
is anything 10 their affairs that requires covering
up it must be something wrong. and the quickest
way 10 right IL Is To force it 10 the surface.
MI AcGarigle, OF Chicago, is not at ease.
Although he has got away from the district attor-
OF the law; for, tncongruous as IL may seem to
some minds, there is law in Canada. A person
there who has a grudge against him OF long stand
Ing 10 wipe out Is preparing 10 arrest him the in
slant he shows himself again; and, In q hostile
country, most OF the money the unhappy refugee
brought with him across the line VIII probably he
spent IN lighting for his freedom or In paying
royal damages 10 his prosecutor.
The earthquake stories telegraphsd from Ken
lucky to-day are as picturesque ia their way as
anything received IN past years from Mexico or
South America The population OF the shaken
communities is not dense, nor Is the architecture
ITCH or massive, but the amount OF the eleventh
hour repentance drawn forth by the coDyulsion
can safely De matched against anything produced
AND the ruins of an aztec civilization